Richmond, Massachusetts.
Typical home $616,739 (+1.9% in a year). Pittsfield, MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,907 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,466 +2%
- $605,273$616,739 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $141,865 +30%
- $474,874$616,739 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Richmond$3,237
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Richmond, MA rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Richmond, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Richmond is a town of 1,407 people in Berkshire County. Half its households earn more than $106,250 a year and half less, against $76,013 across Berkshire County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Berkshire County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Richmond is a small town where the population skews older than in most places, and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. A large majority of adults hold a four-year degree, and homes here are valued well above what is typical elsewhere. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm but not hot days, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops, and manufacturing. Across Berkshire County, the largest workplaces include Berkshire Medical Center, Williams College and the Pittsfield schools. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a good number of people work from home. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment there is little changed from a year ago.
Things to do. Several of the area's best-known sights are a short drive away, including the Norman Rockwell Museum and Hancock Shaker Village, both museums with deep local roots. For time outdoors, October Mountain State Forest is a protected area close by, and the Housatonic River is also a short drive away. The Clark Art Institute, another museum, is a longer drive.
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- 621households
- 68%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Berkshire County had 57,806 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pittsfield Municipal Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Berkshire County
- Berkshire Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,275FTE
- Williams CollegeUniversity or college1,351
- Pittsfield SchoolsSchool district944FTE
- Berkshire County ArcGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability792
- General Dynamics Mission SystemsSearch, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical systems and instrument manufacturing530
- Butternut BasinAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations425
- THE Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse ServicesMental health centers and clinics, outpatient417
- General Dynamics Mission SystemsSearch, detection, navigation, guidance, aeronautical, and nautical systems and instrument manufacturing405
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 99 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,288 people in all across the county; Richmond has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Berkshire County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Berkshire County and the Pittsfield, MA metro.
Richmond home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Richmond$616,739
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Richmond13
Zip codes with a Richmond address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Richmond — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.